Example sentences for: scots

How can you use “scots” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The gallery also has a strong policy of both acquiring and commissioning works depicting modern Scots in the public eye (including actors Sean Connery and Robbie Coltrane and Manchester United football manager Sir Alex Ferguson), which keeps its exhibitions fresh and fulfills Carlyle’s original aims.

  • But the effect was the gradual displacement of Gaelic by the development of Scots English parallel with southern English (as the successors to the respective Anglian and Saxon mainstreams).

  • Even the Scots are likely to give them more credit than that.

  • Irish Gaelic has an extensive written literature based on old monastic tradition (and the newer nationalism), but Scots Gaelic by comparison is in poor shape.

  • The Scots who edit and publish Chambers do not accept what most English and Americans and Canadians do when they say some Scottish words that have become standard English on both sides of the Atlantic.


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